Three Year Old "Big Kids"

Here are some pics from the birthday celebration and gift opening.....

Tye-dyed socks from Buppa and Big Papa! Anika is checking each pair out


Shay is more than thrilled- she is obsessed with socks and inspects socks everyday to make sure there is absolutely no way her socks will develop any holes.


Then we rewrap it all up

Birthday Cake is COMING!!!!!

Anika had to have a blue cake.....

Shay had to have the PINK cake... and notice, Anika is not so sure about the fanfare of singing...

Blowing them all out!

Shay has already put her handprint in her cake...

Mmmmm.... blue cake.

I'm 3 and I LOVE DORA.

Presents....

Strawberry shortcake CAR!

"Kylie, I got PRINCESS CELESTIA!!!"

Next????

"We got COLORS!"

"AND STICKERS AND PAPER!"

WOW..... as Ani says it, "This is the BEST birthday EVER!"

Random pics

Random pics throughout the year my sister passed on.....

All the cousins from the Smiley side


Shay and Amanda


Ani and Chris


The family

Kylie and her cousins

Kylie and her cousin

Kylie again with her cousins, have no idea when this was, maybe Aprilish??

Nana in town...again, not sure when this was...

Twins second birthday party... eating dirt.

Holy 65 Years to the coolest Grandparents!

Happy Anniversary to my awesome grandparents! 65 years and still counting-- absolutely amazing. And as luck would have it, no real great shots of them together, so you'll have to do with the three I could find....

Buppa with her great grandchildren last September


Big Papa making sure everyone knows he was in the room-- again, the attention always has to be on him. After all, if you did not know, he is a "freaking war hero."


The only shot I have of them together.... pretty bad job on my part, but it will do! You two are amazing!

Nana's Visit

Nana made her appearance here in Chicago area... and that means keeping her super busy so she does not rearrange your furniture....... so, we did just that. From swimming at the pool, tye-dying, making clean mud, cooking, going to Moe's, going to the park, picking raspberries--- we were super busy. The kids loved it-- esp. Kylie and Anika who befriended Nana-- Shay decided after 6 days that Nana was okay, but not good enough to let her really play with--- she was just being a dork. In any case, here are some pics from the week.

Anika playing with the clean mud (not a great pic, but she's been the super trooper with this stuff and loves to play with it)


This is the look Shay gave Nana all week..... you can make your own captions as to what she is thinking.

Tye-dying

Kylie with the clean mud

Kylie wanted a million pics done, so consider yourself lucky with only a few......